Lamp-extinguisher



J.- H; NOYES.

4 Lamp Extinguisher.

Patented Feb-. -13, 1855.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSIAH H. NOYES, OF ABINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IiAMP-EXTINGUISHER.

Specification of Letters Patent No.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSIAH H. NOYES, of Abington, in the county ofPlymouth and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in the Manner of Attaching Extinguishers to Lamps,and that the following description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, hereinafter referred to, form a full and exactspecification of the same, wherein I have set forth the nature andprinciples of my said improvements by which my invention may bedistinguished from others of a similar class, together with such partsas I claim and desire to have secured to' me by Letters Patent.

The figures of the accompanying plate of drawings represent myimprovement.

Figure 1, is aside elevation of a pair of wick tubes, with myimprovements applied thereto. Fig. 2, is an elevation taken in anopposite direction. Fig. 3, is a central vertical sect-ion.

The caps or extinguishers to spirit lamps, etc., have heretoforebeenattached to the lamp, by means of small chains which have provedobjectionable by reason of their becoming entangled with each other andfrom their liability to break. By my improvements the extinguishers orcaps are attached to the wick tubes, by means of stationary rods,rigidly secured to the tube in any proper manner, the caps having slotsformed in them so that they can be slipped up and down on the rods, andbe readily placed upon the top of the tubes or removed 12,394, datedFebruary 13, 1855.

0, 0, are the caps or extinguishers, having a slot, d cut out of each,through which slot the rods 6, b are inserted before being fastened tothe wick tubes. The slots 03, 41 must be large enough to allow the caps0 c, to .move freely upon the rods 6 b.

The cap is applied to the tube 50 as to extinguish the light, by simplysliding it up on the rod 6, and then turning it with its mouth downwardover the top of the tube.

In Figs. 1, and 3, one cap is represented as being removed from the topof the wick tube, and the other applied thereto which views fully showits operation without further explanation.

Having thus described my improvements I shall state my claim as follows:

What I claim as my invention and desire to have secured to me by LettersPatent is Attaching the caps or extinguishers to the .wick tubes ofalamp, by means of rods secured to the said wick tubes, and in such amanner that the cap-s may be freely moved up and down the said rods, andapplied to or removed from the top of the wick tubes, as

above set forth.

JOSIAH H. NOYES. Witnesses:

JOSEPH GAVETT, S. N. PIPER.

